Name: The 2nd International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions
Start: 2014-12-03T00:14:00-08:00
End: 2014-12-07T22:20:00-08:00
Location: Embassy Suites Napa Valley, California

The 2nd International Conference on the Initial Stages in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

from Wednesday 3 December 2014 (00:14) to Sunday 7 December 2014 (22:20)

Monday 1 December 2014
Tuesday 2 December 2014
Wednesday 3 December 2014
08:55 Welcome - Mateusz Ploskon
Welcome
- Mateusz Ploskon
08:55 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 PHENIX Highlights - shengli huang (PHENIX Collaboration)

09:25 STAR Highlights - Helen Caines (Yale University (US))

09:50 Proton-ion physics with LHCb - results and prospects - Christian Urs Elsasser (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))

10:15 CMS Highlights - Julia Velkovska (Vanderbilt University (US))
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 13:15
Contributions

11:10 ATLAS Highlights - Aaron Angerami (Columbia University (US))

11:35 ALICE Highlights - Constantinos Loizides (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

12:00 Overview/outlook CGC - Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:25 Factorization in Saturation Physics - Bowen Xiao (Central China Normal University)

12:50 Particle correlations from CGC - Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College (City University of New York))
13:15 Lunch
Lunch
13:15 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 pQCD and saturation (EKRT model) - Risto Paatelainen (Jyvaskyla University)

14:55 Thermal radiation - theory - Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

15:20 Thermal radiation - experiment - Axel Drees (Stony Brook University)

15:45 Photons as a signature of early time non-equilibrium dynamics - Larry McLerran (BNL)
16:10 Coffee
Coffee
16:10 - 16:40
16:40
16:40 - 18:20
Contributions

16:40 Thermalization process in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Jürgen Berges (Heidelberg University)

17:05 Thermalization - Thomas Epelbaum (McGill University)

17:30 Anisotropic hydrodynamics - Wojciech Florkowski (Institute of nuclear Physics, Krakow)

17:55 Bottom-up thermalization and heavy-ion collisions - Eero Aleksi Kurkela (CERN)
18:20

18:20 - 19:15

19:15 Reception
Reception
19:15 - 20:30
Thursday 4 December 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Heavy-flavor in pp, pA and AA -overview - Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova (IT))

09:25 Theoretical aspects of quarkonia production in pA collisions - Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

09:50 Quarkonia at RHIC - Grazyna Odyniec (LBNL)

10:15 Quarkonia at the LHC - Roberta Arnaldi (Universita e INFN (IT))
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:05
11:05
11:05 - 13:10
Contributions

11:05 Impact of fluctuations of IS for system evolution - Jean-Yves Ollitrault (CNRS)

11:30 Azimuthal Anisotropy Distributions - Art Poskanzer (LBNL)

11:55 Continuous description of fluctuating eccentricities - Blaizot Jean-Paul (CNRS)

12:20 Correlations between harmonics - Jiangyong Jia (State University of New York (US))

12:45 Hydro-fluctuations in heavy ion collisions and connections to their treatment in cosmology - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Viscosity/entropy density ratio in pA vs AA - Paul Romatschke (University of Colorado, Boulder)

14:55 Flow results from BES at RHIC - Alexander Schmah (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

15:20 High order cumulants of azimuthal anisotropy in pA collisions from initial state physics - Vladimir Skokov (Western Michigan University)

15:45 EPOS - Klaus Werner
16:10 Coffee
Coffee
16:10 - 16:40
16:40
16:40 - 18:20
Contributions

16:40 Recent results on flow and correlations from the ATLAS experiment - Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University (US))

17:05 Review of flow results from ALICE - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))

17:30 PHENIX Measurements of Anisotropic Flow in Heavy-Ion Collisions at RHIC energies - Arkadiy Taranenko (Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University)

17:55 Initial-state fluctuations from transverse momentum and pseudorapidity dependent event plane fluctuations with CMS - Wei Li (Rice University (US))
18:20

18:20 - 19:30
Friday 5 December 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:15
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical overview of UP Collisions - Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)

09:20 UPC experimental overview - RHIC - Spencer Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:40 UPC experimental - LHC - Eugenio Scapparone (INFN-Bologna(IT))
10:15 Coffee
Coffee
10:15 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 13:00
Contributions

10:40 Charmonium production in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Michael Andreas Winn (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

11:00 Bottomonium production at forward rapidity with ALICE at the LHC - Massimiliano Marchisone (Turin University and INFN)

11:20 Charmonium photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC - Daniele De Gruttola (Universita e INFN (IT))

11:40 Results from ultra-peripheral collisions from CMS - Pat Kenny (University of Kansas (US))

12:00 Weak boson results from CMS - Manuel Calderon De La Barca Sanchez (University of California Davis (US))

12:20 Recent results on elector-weak probes in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions from the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

12:40 Direct virtual photon production in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 200 GeV at STAR - CHI YANG (USTC)
10:40 - 13:00
Contributions

10:40 Initial state angular asymmetries in high energy p+A collisions: spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry by a color electric field and C-odd fluctuations - André Giannini

11:00 Initial state fluctuations and anisotropic flows within an event by event transport approach. - Salvatore Plumari (University of Catania (Italy))

11:20 Charge-dependent correlations from event-by-event anomalous hydrodynamics - Yuji Hirono (Stony Brook University)

11:40 Eigenmode Analysis of Anisotropic Flow - Rajeev Bhalerao (Tata Inst. of Fundamental Research)

12:00 Collective flow in small systems from parton scatterings - Guo-Liang Ma (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP) Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:20 Azimuthal quadrupole correlation from gluon interference in 200 GeV and 7 TeV p+p collisions - Ray Lanny (University of Texas at Austin)

12:40 Collective excitations in anisotropic quark-gluon-plasma - Katarzyna Deja (National Centre for Nuclear Research)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:20
14:20
14:20 - 16:40
Contributions

14:20 Light messengers from heavy quarks - Measurements of leptons from heavy-flavor decays with ALICE at the LHC - Ralf Averbeck (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

14:40 Heavy-flavour production as a function of multiplicity in pp and p-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC - Davide Caffarri (CERN)

15:00 Heavy Flavor Results in Cold Nuclear Matter from PHENIX - Darren McGlinchey (University of Colorado)

15:20 Flow Measurements and selection of body-body and tip-tip enhanced samples in U+U collisions at STAR - Hui Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:40 Correlation results from CMS - Zhenyu Chen (Rice University (US))

16:00 Femtoscopy in d-Au collisions - Piotr Bozek

16:20 Quantum coherence measurements using two-, three-, and four-pion Bose-Einstein correlations - Dhevan Raja Gangadharan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
14:20 - 16:40
Contributions

14:20 The Balitsky-JIMWLK evolution equation at next-to-leading order - Giovanni Antonio Chirilli (Ohio State University)

14:40 Particle production at NLO in pA collisions: the wave function approach - Tolga Altinoluk (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

15:00 The shape of the proton at high energies - Soeren Schlichting (Brookhaven National Lab)

15:20 High-energy parton in unstable QGP - Stanislaw Mrowczynski (Jan Kochanowski University)

15:40 Chemical and mechanical equilibration of the quark-gluon plasma - Marco Ruggieri

16:00 Ghosts in Non-equilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma - Alina Czajka (Jan Kochanowski University)

16:20 The event structure in PP collisions at the LHC energies. - Guy Paic (Universidad Nacional Autonoma (MX))
16:40 Coffee
Coffee
16:40 - 17:10
17:10
17:10 - 19:10
Contributions

17:10 Measurement of low-mass dielectrons in p-Pb collisions with ALICE - Theo Alexander Broker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

17:30 Leading-order anisotropic hydrodynamics - Leonardo Tinti (Jan Kochanowski University)

17:50 Transport coefficients for bulk viscous evolution in the relaxation-time approximation - Radoslaw Ryblewski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

18:10 Anisotropic hydrodynamics for conformal Gubser flow - Mohammad Nopoush (Kent State University)

18:30 Bulk viscosity-driven suppression of shear viscosity effects on the flow harmonics at RHIC - Jacquelyn Noronha Hostler (Columbia University)

18:50 A Multiplicity Selection Effect on the Long-range Dihadron Correlation Measurement in d+Au Collisions at RHIC - Li Yi
17:10 - 19:10
Contributions

17:10 Centrality dependence of baryon-pair production in heavy-ion collisions at different energies - Carlos Merino (University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain))

17:30 Gluon spectral functions and transport coefficients in Yang–Mills theory - Fister Leonard (IPhT, CEA Saclay)

17:50 3+1D Structure of Nuclear Collisions From Classical Gluon Fields - Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)

18:10 Holographic non-conformal hydrodynamization - maximilian attems (University of Barcelona)

18:30 Numerical solution of the next to leading order BK equation - Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä)

18:50 Production of strange particles in jets and the underlying event in p--Pb and Pb--Pb collisions measured with ALICE at the LHC - Xiaoming Zhang (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Saturday 6 December 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Forward production measurements with LHCb - Bo.Bo Liu (Universita e INFN (IT))

09:25 The proton and nuclei in 3D - elke-caroline Aschenauer (BNL)

09:55 The experimental future of e+A physics - Matthew Lamont (BNL)
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Back-to-back jets in pp,pA and their complementarity in eA collisions - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique) Feng Yuan (LBNL)

11:35 The impact of e+A collisions on nuclear PDFs. - Manoel R. Moldes

12:00 The EMC effect - JLAB experimental findings and plans - John Arrington (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:25 Future at the LHC: LHeC, FCC - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Jet measurements in p+Pb and Pb+Pb with the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

14:55 Jet and charged hadron results from CMS - Yaxian Mao (Vanderbilt University (US))

15:20 Quantifying Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Jet Observables in p-Pb Collisions - Megan Elizabeth Connors (Yale University (US))

15:45 Jet vs. Jettiness - the event shape in p+A and e+A collisions - Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

16:10 Aspects of centrality determination in asymmetric nuclear collisions - Andreas Morsch (CERN)
16:30 Coffee
Coffee
16:30 - 17:00
17:00
17:00 - 19:30
Contributions

17:00 Centrality in jet studies in pA collisions: the need to understand kinematical biases - Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano (Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT))

17:25 Hard scatterings and multiplicity biases - Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

17:45 A centrality detector concept. - Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

18:00 Remarks / discussion starter - Gunther Roland (MIT)
20:00 Banquet
Banquet
20:00 - 21:30
Sunday 7 December 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Parton cascade description of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions - Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt)

09:25 From End to beginning - Constraining the Initial State from Final-State Beginnings - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

09:50 "Trento" new fast IS generator - Steffen A. Bass (Duke University)

10:15 Initial State Bremsstrahlung versus Final State Hydrodynamics in pA Collisions - Peter Levai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))
10:40 Coffee
Coffee
10:40 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 13:00
Contributions

11:10 Strong coupling QGP thermalization with longitudinal dynamics - Wilke van der Schee (Utrecht University)

11:35 Outlook - collectivity aspects - Matthew Luzum

12:00 Outlook - experimental perspective - James Lawrence Nagle (University of Colorado at Boulder)

12:30 Closing remarks
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30

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